You might notice that sometimes your bank adds variable bits to your bank transactions.
E.g:
- Sunset beach takeaways 19:54
- AP123456 Payment to education provider
Where that
19:54
might be the timestamp of the transaction, other times it could be the date or a payment reference number.From now on, if you now categorise one of these transactions with variable characters and select "and all existing"/"all future" transactions, it will apply this category to other transactions while ignoring the variable characters.
Note: this only applies from now on, if you categorise a transaction, as this creates a "rule" behind the scenes that remembers your preferences.